The mum of a toddler who was given a five per cent chance of surviving past her fifth birthday due to a rare condition has praised her "happy, smiling" brave two-year-old daughter.
Gabriela Bolmane, 21 months old, has a rare defect called Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome, which means one side of her heart is underdeveloped. Doctors told her mum, Evita Bolmane, from Skelmersdale, that her then-unborn baby would only have a five per cent chance of reaching five years old, when Evita was pregnant with Gabriela in April 2020.
When Evita was 24 weeks pregnant, doctors told her and her husband Zigmunds that they had the choice to terminate the pregnancy, give birth to the baby for her to pass away, or put their new-born through surgery to survive.
